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Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
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The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
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